Zousain - New Winner

An electrifying performance from the Justify (USA) filly Ramatuelle, who demolished a quality field of sprinters in the Group 1 Qatar Prix de la Foret Presente par Education Above All (1400m) at Longchamp and stamped her ticket to the Breeders Cup Mile.

The debutant Swifties jumped a length in front when the barriers opened and that was as close as the opposition came to the daughter Capitalist in Sunday’s Tim Miller Electrical Maiden Plate (1000m) at Bendigo.

Plenty of encouragement is coming from Japan for supporters of Arrowfield Stud shuttler Admire Mars (JPN), who added another three first-crop winners on Saturday.  

Tough staying import Land Legend (Fr) got the ball rolling for his legendary sire Galileo when taking out the Group I ATC The Metropolitan at Randwick on Saturday and then overnight in France he sired two more Group I winners and a Group II winner for good measure.

Disappointment gave way to unbridled joy for Hermitage Thoroughbreds and Arrowfield Stud when Inglis Easter graduate Lady Shenandoah secured G1 glory in today’s Darley Flight Stakes over 1600m at Randwick.

Three stakes races for new season juveniles were run in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday delivering new stakes-winners for Extreme Choice and Hellbent, plus a first stakes-winner for Ole Kirk with his first runner.

Widden Stud’s Zousain had a super impressive debut winner on Tuesday with Laizabout opening up to win by six and a half lengths as favourite.

Coolmore hit the board on Day 2 at Longchamp when the 2-year-old colt Camille Pissarro emulated the feat of his sire Wootton Bassett (GB) in the Group 1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (1400m).

We’re getting into the swing of things in podcast land so here we go again in a new episode where we talk racing and how it relates to breeding, listen in to Craig “Clocker’ Tompson and Tara Madgwick each week during spring as we talk about the past weekend where we saw the first of the new season juveniles – what do you think about two year-old racing? it seems to polarise

A shock for punters to start Arc Day at Longchamp with the outsider Vertical Blue ending the unbeaten record of stablemate Zarigana in the Group 1 Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac - Criterium des Pouliches (1m) for 2yo fillies.